Where Do We Go Now! Cristina Lucas
© Cristina Lucas "Montaña de Arcilla / Mountain of Clay", from series Montañas
About This Exhibition:
WDWGN! is a programme of online exhibitions at VASA Project that has been led by Rui Goncalves Cepeda since 2013. This programme of exhibitions is build around the subject and authority of “geography” as a battleground between distinctive contemporary ideologies and contested conceptual territories.
Evolving around those two key conditions, the series of online photography exhibitions associate the physical and mental states of the body and of the being; it addresses the contested territories of contemporary photography in a digital-democratising age and its limitations in terms of narrative capacity, as well as the energy essential for the long journey, as being a “journey of phases in which the thought we are immersed in is invalidate” (borrowing from Prof. Irit Rogoff thoughts expressed in her essay What is a Theorist?, from 2006).
The programme has started in October 2013 and has engaged since then with visual narratives and stories brought by photographers from different cultural sides of the world, while sharing a dialogue that can be contextualised and speaks to a global audience. With photographers, such as Delio Jasse, Carlos Palma, Jane and Louise Wilson, Adam Chodzko, Larson & Shindelman, and Nadine Fraczkowski, Rui explored and inquired into the dynamics of loss, of giving up, of moving away, and of being without, as was expressed in the essay What is a Theorist?, whereas, through the works of Cristina Lucas, Marisa J. Futernick, Rosangela Rennó, and others, he will focus his attention on the bodily and mental states springing from the ideas of convergences, anxiety, destruction, deceleration, deficit and chance.
Rui G. Cepeda
Curator
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